Countries by Northerly and Southerly Points Quiz Countries of the World - No Outlines Minefield517 Your Account Isn't Verified! In order to create a playlist on Sporcle, you need to verify the email address you used during registration. Go to your Sporcle Settings to finish the process. report this ad Geography of Alaska, Alaska Kids' Corner, State of Alaska Geography of Alaska Geography of Alaska Land area: With 586,412 square miles, or about 365,000,000 acres, Alaska is the largest state in the union and; one-fifth the size of the lower 48 states. Area per person: Approximately .91 square mile per person. Diameter: East to west, 2,400 miles; north to south, 1,420 miles. Coastline: 6,640 miles, point to point; as measured on the most detailed maps available, including islands, Alaska has 33,904 miles of shoreline. Estimated tidal shoreline, including islands, inlets and shoreline to head of tidewater, is 47,300 miles.

Adjacent salt water: North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean. Alaska-Canada border: 1,538 miles long; length of boundary between the Arctic Ocean and Mount St. Elias, 647 miles; Southeast border with British Columbia and Yukon Territory, 710 miles; water boundary, 181 miles. Geographic center: 63° 50' north latitude, 152° west longitude, about 60 miles northwest of Denali. Northernmost point: Point Barrow, 71° 23' 25" north latitude, 156° 28' 30", west longitude. Southernmost point: Tip of Amatignak Island, Aleutian Chain, 51° 15' 44" north latitude, 179° 06' 31" west longitude. Easternmost and westernmost points: The easternmost and westernmost points depend on whether you look at it from the global geographic perspective considering the longitudinal meridians, or just west=left, east=right.

The 180th meridian, (halfway around the world from the Prime Meridian at Greenwich, England) is the global dividing line between all eastern and western longitudes and happens to pass through Alaska's Aleutian Island chain. That means, when taking the global geographic perspective, Alaska has both the easternmost and westernmost spots in the entire country! The piece of land with the most westerly longitude is Amatignak Island at 179° 06' 31" west, just shy of the 180th meridian. Only 70 miles away, in a westerly direction but on the other side of the meridian, is Pochnoi Point on Semisopochnoi Island, with the most easterly longitude of 179° 46' east. The chain continues in a westerly direction for approximately another 300 miles to Cape Wrangell on Attu Island, which is the farthest piece of land that one can travel to in a westerly direction in the state. If one is facing north and not considering the global longitudinal lines, this would be considered the farthest western point in the state.

Looking to the right, to the east, and using the same criteria of not considering the global longitudinal lines, the farthest eastern point in the state is near Camp Point in southeastern Alaska. Tallest mountain: Denali, at 20,320 feet, is the tallest mountain in North America. Alaska has 39 mountain ranges containing 17 of the 20 highest peaks in the United States. Largest natural freshwater lake: Iliamna, with 1,150 square miles. Alaska has 94 lakes with surface areas of more than 10 square miles among Alaska's more than 3 million lakes. Longest river: Yukon, with 1,875 miles in Alaska and 2,298 total. There are more than 3,000 rivers in the state. The Yukon River ranks third in length of U.S. rivers, behind the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Largest island: Kodiak, in the Gulf of Alaska, with 3,588 square miles. There are 1,800 named islands in the state, 1,000 of which are located in Southeast Alaska.

Largest glacier: Bering Glacier complex, with 2,250 square miles, includes the Bagley Icefield. Ice fields cover about 5 percent of the state, or 29,000 square miles. Largest city in population: Anchorage, population 250,006 (1994 estimate). Largest city in area: Sitka, with 4,710 square miles, 1,816 square miles of which are water. Juneau is second, with 3,108 square miles, part of which is icefield. Source: The Alaska Almanac, 27th Edition Alaska Facts State Nick Name: "The Last Frontier" - the name Alaska is derived from the Aleut word "Aleyska," meaning "great land." State Motto: "North to the Future" State Capital: Juneau, located in the Southeast region of Alaska, has a population of 33,277 (2015 Estimate of Population, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development) Alaska Map: Alaska Flag: NOTE: The State of Alaska is not responsible for the content/information on any site outside of a State of Alaska department.

Popular Links Mark Hits The Road To The Northernmost Point In The United States, Barrow, Alaska Barrow, Alaska Pt Barrow, beyond NE end of Stevenson St, 9 miles from Barrow Pt. Barrow is the northernmost point in the United States. It is located on a narrow headland about 9 miles northeast of Barrow, and marks the boundary between the Chukchi Sea to the west and the Beaufort Sea to the east. For most visitors, the significance of a visit here is to be able to claim a northernmost point visit, much like visitors on Hawaii's Big Island head for the Ka Lae South Point Complex for a southernmost point visit. But it has archaeological significance as well, with evidence that ancestors of the Inupiat lived here more than a thousand years ago, including both the Thule and Birnirk cultures. Barrow Summer Homes (A92A0169) Along the drive to Pt. Barrow we passed what our guide described as summer homes. Many of the Inupiat in Barrow continue traditional hunting and whaling activities to secure food for their families, with those activities often conducted out of their summer homes along the waterfront.

Recent Whale Kill Site (A92A0174) The Inupiat make pretty full use of the whales they catch. And anything they leave behind will be scavenged by polar bears. Arctic Ocean Ice (A92A0177) It's difficult to see in this picture, but the winter ice cap lies just off the coast. With climate change, the winter ice now retreats from the coast earlier and further than it did the year of my visit to Barrow. Want to Go Swimming? (A92A0178) The water off Point Barrow doesnt' get much above freezing, even during the heart of summer. But that doesn't stop some people from taking dip in the Arctic Ocean. If you do, and if you pay the one-time lifetime dues, you can become a member of the Polar Bear Club. Which I think also grants you the privilege to scavenge whale kill sites with other polar bears. :-) Point Barrow Encyclopedia > Places > United States, Canada, and Greenland > U.S. Physical Geography Point Barrow Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean, at lat. 71°23−N and long.

156°30−W. Visited in 1826 by Frederick W. Beechey, a British explorer, and named by him for the British geographer Sir John Barrow , it has since been the object of many expeditions and has figured prominently in arctic aviation. Navigation is open for only two or three months a year. To the southwest is the village of Barrow. Farther south is a monument to Will Rogers and Wiley Post , who lost their lives there in an airplane crash in 1935. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Extreme Points of the United States Extreme Points of the United States Description view trip reports Extreme points lie farther north, east, south, and west than any other point of a specific region. Here, we limit consideration to the contiguous 48 United States; the entire 50 states (so including Alaska and Hawaii); and all United States territory. We also consider the lowest and highest elevation points to be extrema. An excellent reference with several tables and illustrations is available at wikipedia.org .

The 180th meridian, being at an arbitrarily selected location, poses certain issues for defining "easternmost" and "westernmost". This is especially true since Alaska crosses this meridian and hence contains land in the Eastern Hemisphere. We discount calling such land "easternmost" as a silly fiction generated by the date line's arbitrarily-selected location. We define being east of a location if the shortest path, a great circle track, contains an east component, i.e. a true course on departure from 0° to 180°. A point is west of one's location if the great circle track has a true course on departure from 180° to 360°. The following extreme points are abstracted from the above wikipedia page, and are reproduced here for the reader's convenience. Coordinates use the NAD27 datum except where indicated by "datum uncertain" for certain extrema lying outside the contiguous 48 states. Here, the corresponding references do not specify the datum. Please E-mail the webmaster with any corrections, comments, and updates.

Contiguous 48 United States Northernmost - Northwest Angle, Minnesota (49.38407°N, 95.15274° W) Southernmost1 - Cape Sable, Florida (25.11567° N, 81.08579° W) The southernmost point on the mainland. - Ballast Key, Florida (24.52° N, 81.965° W) The southernmost land permanently above the waterline. Easternmost - West Quoddy Head, Maine (44.81335° N, 66.94975° W) The easternmost land permanently above the waterline. Sail Rock, just offshore, is occasionally underwater. Westernmost - Cape Alava, Washington (48.16974° N, 124.73004° W) The westernmost point on the mainland. - Bodelteh Islands, Washington (48.17761° N, 124.76479° W) The westernmost land permanently above the waterline.

Highest - Mount Whitney, California (14,494 feet) The new NAVD88 vertical datum yields 14,505 feet. Lowest - Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California (-282 feet) 1 Key West, Florida falsely bills itself as being the southernmost land in the forty-eight states. 50 United States Northernmost - Point Barrow, Alaska (71.39040° N, 156.47741° W) Southernmost - Ka Lae, Hawaii (18.91023° N, 155.67927° W) Easternmost - West Quoddy Head, Maine (44.81335° N, 66.94975° W) The easternmost land permanently above the waterline. Sail Rock, just offshore, is occasionally underwater. Westernmost - Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska (65.64° N, 168.12° W) datum uncertain The westernmost point on the North American continent.

- Peaked Island, offshore from Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, Alaska (52.92° N, 172.44° E) datum uncertain Highest - Mount McKinley, Alaska (20,320 feet) Known also by its native name, "Denali". Lowest - Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California (-282 feet) All United States Territory Northernmost - Point Barrow, Alaska (71.39040° N, 156.47741° W) Southernmost - Rose Atoll, American Samoa (14.374° S, 170.7595° W) datum uncertain Easternmost - Point Udall, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (17.7555° N, 64.5650° W) datum uncertain Westernmost - Udall Point, Guam (13.4475° N, 144.6182° E) datum uncertain Highest - Mount McKinley, Alaska (20,320 feet) Known also by its native name, "Denali".

Lowest - Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California (-282 feet) Attempting to reach some of the points listed in this web site can be dangerous, and could lead to accidents resulting in injury or death. Some of the summits lie in rugged and isolated regions, where even minor mishaps can escalate into a life threatening nike shox running crisis. Other locations lie on private property, military bases, and other areas where access is restricted. Trespassing in these areas can result in being arrested, shot at, or worse. Right of access to these areas is constantly changing, and access in the past does not guarantee present access. By use of this web page, the reader hereby releases the trip report authors, trip report compiler, and webmaster from liability for any injury, including but not limited to monetary loss, death, and other damages that might in any way be connected with this web site. FAIR WARNING: These are "armchair mountaineer" articles, an offering for amusement, not action. Many of these peaks are potentially life threatening, or are on private property. Adequate mountaineer training and/or owner's permission are required if you choose to pursue this list.

The authors cited on this page accept no responsibility for injury, or any liability related to these route descriptions. list of countries by northernmost point - 必应 Sign in List of countries by northernmost point This is a list of countries by northernmost point on land. Where borders are contested, the northernmost point under the control of a nation is listed. A selection of dependent territories and partly recognized states is listed in italics; those countries are not ranked. Rank Country Northernmost point Latitude Greenland (Denmark) Kaffeklubben Island 83°40'N 1 Canada Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 83°06'N 2 Russia Cape Fligely, Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast 81°51'N 3 Norway Rossøya, Svalbard 80°49'N 4 United States ...

(展开) Point Barrow, Alaska 71°23'N 5 Finland Nuorgam, Utsjoki, Lapland 70°05'N 6 Sweden Treriksröset, Kiruna, Lapland 69°04'N 7 Iceland Kolbeinsey, Eyjafjarðarsýsla 67°08'N Arctic Circle 66°33′39″N Faroe Islands (Denmark) Cape Enniberg 62°23'N 8 United Kingdom Out Stack, Shetland Islands 60°51'N Åland (Finland) 60°40'N 9 Estonia Vaindloo island, Vainupea village, Vihula Parish, Lääne-Viru County 59°48'N 10 Latvia Ipiķi parish 58°05'N 11 Denmark Grenen, Skagen, North Jutland 57°45'N 12 Lithuania Aspariškiai 56°27'N 13 Belarus Proshki, Verkhnyad

zvinsk Raion, Vitebsk Region 56°08'N 14 Ireland Inishtrahull Island, County Donegal 55°26'N 15 Kazakhstan Border with Russia 55°06'N 16 Germany List, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein 55°03'N 17 Poland Cape Rozewie, Pomorskie 54°50'N 18 China Mohe, Heilong Jiang 53°34'N 19 Netherlands Rottumerplaat, Groningen 53°32'N 20 Ukraine Hremyach (Грем'яч) 52º22'N 21 Mongolia Border with Russia 52º09'N 22 Belgium Dreef, Antwerp 51°30'N 23 France Bray-Dunes, Nord 51°05'N 24 Czech Republic Severní 51°02'N 25 Luxembourg Gouvy 50°11'N 26 Slovakia Beskydok 49°36

'N 27 Austria Neumühlbach, Lower Austria 49°01'N 28 Hungary border with Slovakia, near Nagy-Milic 48°35'N 29 Moldova Naslavcea 48°28'N 30 Romania Horodiştea, Botoşani 48°15'N 31 Switzerland Bargen, Canton of Schaffhausen 47°48'N 32 Liechtenstein Ruggell 47°14'N 33 Italy Zwillingsköpfl, South Tyrol 47°05'N 34 Slovenia Budinci 46°52'N 35 Croatia Žabnik, Sveti Martin na Muri, Međimurje County 46°33'N 36 Serbia Hajdukovo 46°11'N 37 Bosnia and Herzegovina East of Jasenovac 45°43'N 38 Uzbekistan 45°36'N 39 Japan Cape Soya, Hokkaidō 45°31'N 40

 Bulgaria Timok Mouth, Vidin Province 44°13'N 41 San Marino Falciano, Serravalle 43°59'N 42 Spain Punta de Estaca de Bares, Galicia 43º47'N 43 Monaco Avenue Varavilla 43°45'N 44 Georgia South of Aibga 43°35'N 45 Montenegro Mocevici, Pljevlja municipality 43°32'N 46 Kosovo[a] Border with Serbia 43°25'N 47 Kyrgyzstan 43°16'N 48 North Korea Pungseo-ri, Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province 43°00'N 49 Turkmenistan North of Arychagyl 42°50'N South Ossetia 42°44'N 50 Andorra Pic du Port 42°39'N 51 Albania West of Kuti 42°30'N 52 Macedonia Boskovci 42°21'N 5

3 Portugal Cevide, Cristoval, Melgaço 42°07'N 54 Turkey Cape İnceburun, by Sinop 42°06'N 55 Vatican City Corner of Viale Vaticano and Via Leone IV 41°54'N 56 Azerbaijan 41°53'N 57 Greece Ormenio, Evros prefecture 41°43'N 58 Armenia Mamai 41°17'N 59 Tajikistan North of Punuk 41°02'N 60 Iran North of Kukh[disambiguation needed], West Azarbaijan Region 39°47'N 61 South Korea North of Daegang-ri, Goseong, Gangwon Province 38°36'N 62 Afghanistan South of Qal'Aikhum 38°22'N 63 Iraq North of Sanat 37°23'N 64 Tunisia Ras ben Sakka ( the northernmost point in Africa, in Bizerte city) 37°21'N 65 Syria T

igris south of Cizre 37°19'N 66 Pakistan Kilik Pass 37°06'N 67 Algeria Cap Bougaroûn, Skikda 37°05'N 68 Malta Xwieni Bay, Marsalforn Żebbuġ, Gozo 36°05'N 69 Morocco Cape Spartel 35°55'N 70 Cyprus Cape Apostolos Andreas 35°42'N 71 India Siachen Glacier 35°30'N 72 Lebanon North of An Nasiriyah 34°43'N 73 Jordan Tripoint with Syria and Iraq 33°22'N 74 Israel 10 km north of Qiryat Shemona, or Mount Hermon 33°17'N 75 Libya Ras Ajdir 33°10'N 76 Mexico Monumento 206 in Los Algodones, municipality of Mexicali, Baja California 32°43'N 77 Saudi Arabia Jabal Anaiza 32°14

'N 78 Egypt Sidi Barrani 31°36'N 79 Nepal Lapche Pass 30°26'N 80 Kuwait Border with Iraq 30°06'N 81 Myanmar Watershed of the Irrawaddy 28°32'N 82 Bhutan North of Lunana 28°20'N Western Sahara Border with Morocco 27°40'N 83 Bahamas Walker's Cay, Abaco Islands 27°16'N 84 Bangladesh Tetulia, Panchgar 26°38'N 85 Oman As Salamah 26°30'N 86 Taiwan Dongyin, Matsu Islands 26°23'N 87 Mauritania Tripoint with Algeria and Western Sahara 26°20'N 88 Bahrain Muharraq Island 26°17'N 89 Qatar Ras Rakan 26°09'N 90 United Arab Emirates West of Chashawfi 26°05'N 91 Mali Border with Mauritania 25°00'

N 92 Niger Tripoint with Algeria and Libya 23°31'N Tropic of Cancer 23°26′21″N 93 Chad Tibesti Massif 23°26'N 94 Vietnam Lung Cu 23°22'N 95 Cuba Cayo Cruz del Padre 23°16'N Hong Kong Sham Chun River 22°34′N 96 Laos Ban Lengsuchai 22°29'N 97 Sudan Wadi Halfa 22°12'N 98 Philippines Mavudis (Yami) Island, Batan Islands 21°07'N 99 Thailand Mae Sai 20°27'N 100 Haiti Pointe Tete de Chien 20°04'N 101 Dominican Republic Cabo Isabela 19°55'N 102 Yemen Border with Saudi Arabia 19°00'N 103 Jamaica Half Moon Point 18°31'N 104 Belize Subteniente Lopez 18°29'N Ang

uilla (United Kingdom) 18°18'N 105 Eritrea Ras Kasar 17°59'N 106 Guatemala Border with Mexico 17°49'N 107 Antigua and Barbuda Goat Point, Barbuda 17°44'N 108 Saint Kitts and Nevis Dieppe Bay Town, Saint Kitts 17°26'N 109 Honduras Great Swan Island, Swan Islands 17°24′38″N 110 Cape Verde Ponta do Sol, Santo Antão Island 17°12'N 111 Senegal Podor, Morfil Island 16°41'N 112 Colombia Serranilla Bank 15°50'N 113 Venezuela Isla Aves 15º40'N 114 Dominica Carib Point 15°38'N 115 Burkina Faso 15°05'N 116 Nicaragua North of Liwa Sirpe 15°01'N 117 Ethiopia Border with E

ritrea 14°53'N 118 Marshall Islands Bokak Atoll 14°32'N 119 Cambodia Border with Laos and Vietnam 14°30'N 120 El Salvador North of El Limo 14°26'N 121 Saint Lucia Pointe du Cap 14°07'N 122 Nigeria Border with Niger 13°50'N 123 The Gambia Ker Maka Tukulor 13°49'N 124 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Porter Point 13°22'N 125 Barbados North Point 13°20'N 126 Cameroon Border with Chad 13°05'N 127 Djibouti Doumeira Island 12°43'N 128 Guinea Border with Senegal 12°41'N 129 Guinea-Bissau Border with Senegal 12°41'N Aruba (Netherlands) 12°37'N 130 Grenada Gun Point, Car

riacou 12°31'N 131 Benin Atakora River, on the border with Niger 12°25'N 132 South Sudan Border with Sudan, Upper Nile Province 12°14'N 133 Somalia Caluula 11°59'N 134 Trinidad and Tobago Marble Island, Tobago 11º21'N 135 Costa Rica Peñas Blancas 11º13'N 136 Ghana Border with Burkina Faso 11°10'N 137 Togo Tripoint with Ghana and Burkina Faso 11°08'N 138 Central African Republic Border with Chad 11°01'N 139 Cote d'Ivoire Border with Mali 10°44'N 140 Federated States of Micronesia Mogmog, Ulithi 10°05'N 141 Sierra Leone Border with Guinea 10°00'N 142 Panama Point Manzanillo 09°38'N 143

 Liberia Border with Guinea 08°33'N 144 Sri Lanka Point Pedro 09°30'N 145 Guyana Waini Peninsula 08°24'N 146 Palau Ngeruangel 08°10'N 147 Malaysia Banggi Island 07°15'N 148 Maldives Thuraakunu, Ihavandhippolhu Atoll 07°07'N 149 Indonesia Rondo Island 06°4'N 150 Suriname 06°01'N French Guiana (France) Pointe Isère 05°48'N 151 Kenya Disputed border with South Sudan 05°35'N 152 Democratic Republic of the Congo Mbomou River, south of Aminagou 05°22'N 153 Brazil Mount Caburaí 05°15'N 154 Brunei Pekan Muara 05°04'N 155 Uganda West of Lokichokio 04°14'N

 156 Equatorial Guinea Punta Europa, Bioko 03°47'N 157 Republic of the Congo North of Motala 03°43'N 158 Gabon Kom River 02°19'N 159 Kiribati 02°03'N 160 Sao Tome and Principe Ilheu Bombom 01°42'N 161 Ecuador Darwin Island 01°41'N 162 Singapore Sembawang 01°28'N Equator 00°00′00″ 163 Peru Putumayo River 00°01'S 164 Nauru Anna Point 00°30'S 165 Tanzania Kagera River, south west of Burumba 00°59'S 166 Rwanda South of Kagitumba 01°03'S 167 Papua New Guinea Mussau Island 01°15'S 168 Burundi Colline Kigali 02°18'S 169 Seychelles Bird Island 

03°43'S 170 Angola Caio Bemba 04°24'S 171 Solomon Islands Pelau, Ontong Java 05°13'S 172 Tuvalu Lakena, Nanumea 05°39'S 173 Zambia Lake Tanganyika 08°14'S 174 Timor-Leste 08°19'S Tokelau (New Zealand) Atafu Atoll 08°31'S 175 Australia Moimi Island, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland 09°16'S 176 Malawi South of Ngomba 09°22'S 177 Bolivia Manoa 09°40'S 178 Mauritius Tappe a Terre, Agaléga Islands 10°25'S 179 Mozambique Cape Delgado 10°27'S 180 Comoros Pointe Nord, Grande Comore 11°22'S 181 Madagascar Cap D'Ambre 12°08'S 182 Fiji Elsee, Rotuma 12°

30'S 183 Vanuatu Hiw, Torres Islands, Torba Province 13°07'S 184 Samoa Fagamalo, Savai'i 13°25'S 185 Tonga Niuafo'ou 15°36'S 186 Zimbabwe Zambezi River east of Jeki 15°37'S 187 Namibia Kunene River north of Otjivakuanda 16°56'S 188 Chile Near Visviri, Arica y Parinacota Region 17°19'S 189 Botswana Kasane 17°46'S 190 Paraguay San Antonio, Border with Bolivia 19°33'S 191 Argentina La Quiaca, Jujuy Province 21°48'S 192 South Africa Beit Bridge, Limpopo Province 22°20'S Tropic of Capricorn 23°26′21″S 193 Swaziland Horo 25°44'S 194 Lesotho Monantsa 28°34'S

 195 New Zealand Nugent Island 29°13'S 196 Uruguay Quarai River south of Dirceu Barcelos 30°05'S Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) Steeple Island 51°00'S Antarctica Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula 63°23'S Antarctic Circle 66°33′39″S This is a list of countries by northernmost point on land.

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Barrow, Northernmost Town in the U.S.: Alaska's Arctic Far North on the Looney Front, Part 2 | The Huffington Post Barrow, Northernmost Town in the U.S.: Alaska's Arctic Far North on the Looney Front, Part 2 08/23/2015 11:26 am ET | Updated Jul 16, 2016 120 Mike Arkus Journalist Barrow, the northernmost town in the United States, 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is a bit of a mess. It can't even make up its mind how far it actually is from the North Pole, let alone from its southern counterpoint. A multi-destination signpost just outside the airport proclaims it 1,311 miles south of the North Pole and 11,109 miles north of the South Pole. Global signpost Close-up Barely a couple of hundred yards' walk further north, but apparently closer to God since it's just by a church, another multi-destination sign post announces: North Pole 1250, South Pole 11,388. Sixty-one miles in five minutes!

Talk about Godspeed! A check on the internet gives yer another: North Pole 1,298 miles, South Pole 11,132 miles. I give up. I'm not gonna walk it, anyway. Second global signpost Close-up The view of the terrain from Deadhorse to Barrow, though, aboard Alaska Airline's Boeing 737-400 Combi, a combined cargo and passenger plane, is fascinating - a crazy quilt of flat, brownish, treeless tundra, bright white ice, glints of iridescent blue, the brilliant yellow-green of lichen, and pipelines and service roads forming the irregular blocks of a giant geological jigsaw puzzle. Approaching Barrow from the air Another view In late May, Barrow's roads are mud and gravel filled with puddles as the spring melt sets in. Its raggedy mainly wooden buildings are built on stilts to prevent them sinking and collapsing over because of the continual melting and refreezing of the permafrost. The houses' yards are filled with everything from skin boats and upturned sleds to bits of whale blubber, drying seal skins and battered ATV quads.

Street views of Barrow In fact everybody seems to be buzzing merrily all over the place on ATVs, especially along the gravelly waterfront by the Chukchi Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean way north of the Bering Strait. Huge blocks of jagged ice lay packed against the gravelly shore, driven there by the region's famously ferocious winds. As we speak, a gent is bouncing along on the pack ice on a skidoo. Arctic pack ice on the shore Another view Town view Shore-side playground As capital of North Slope Borough, at 95,000 square miles the largest U.S. county-level division, and larger than the whole of the United Kingdom, Barrow is home to about half of the region's 9,000 inhabitants. Some 60 percent are indigenous or mixed-blood Iñupiat Inuit, and the rest are a vast amalgam ranging from Caucasian whites and African Americans to Koreans, Chinese, West Indians, Filipinos, Saudis, Samoans and Tongans, 38 nationalities in all, drawn here by the high wages offered either by the local government, the main employer, or the local oil and gas service industries.

Whale-bone arch Close-up In fact, of 10 restaurants here, seven are run Koreans, one by a Mexican and two by a Serbian. A millennium and a half before British naval geographer Frederick William Beechey named the area after Sir John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, and centuries before whalers from New Bedford flocked to its whale-rich waters, the Iñupiat inhabited these barren shores, calling it Ukpeagvik, 'place where snowy owls are hunted.' Local transport on the pack ice And the traffic signs to go with it They hunted whales in total sustainability before the whaling onslaught from down south, taking just what they needed, meat and blubber for food, oil for fire and light, skin for clothes and other uses, bones and baleen for tools and art. Harvested baleen Local artist preparing baleen for art work Today they continue this major ingredient of their traditional heritage, allowed to harvest 24 mainly bowhead whales a year despite the moratoria for other would-be whalers.

A few 18-foot long seal hide-covered craft are drawn up on the pack ice or nearby gravel, flying their family flags, the equivalent of a crest of arms, showing that they've recently caught a whale. They still use seal skins skillfully sewn together by the women and drawn tight over wooden frames to waterproof the craft - rather than aluminium whose rivets would pop in the ice and freezing water. Iñupiat whaling craft after successful hunt Close-up Another Except from July to September there's always shore ice. The Iñupiat drag the craft over the ice to the open water and sea channels, anything from two to 10 miles from shore. They still fire harpoons into the massive animals, but no longer as a means to kill it, only to mark its location. Another successful whale hunt And another They then fire a whale bomb from a heavy rifle - a pointed brass tube filled with explosives and a delayed fuse so that it will detonate after burying itself deep in the whale's centre, the shrapnel destroying the heart or other vital organs. If it exploded on the body's surface it would do little damage. The guns and whale bombs are on sale at the town's auto parts outlet.

Whale gun and tubes A handful A bowhead whale skull is on show outside the Iñupiat cultural centre. It's 17 feet long, a third of the creature's total length. The animal weighed a ton for each foot in length, totalling 51 tons. Last night one family celebrated its latest catch, hosting a blubber-eating party for all comers. Whale skull One of the oddities of Barrow is the result of the hard work and arguably good heart of a Florida lady named Cathy Parker. In a place where the temperature only climbs above freezing 100 days a year, she felt it was unfair that the high school kids had to play football indoors. So she helped raise $500,000, plus another $500,000 for installation, for her version of a field of dreams, a beautiful deep blue full-sized astroturf - used four times a year for inter-state games. Perhaps the money could have been put to better use, but prices, fuelled by the North Slope oil bonanza, are astronomical - $550,000 to buy a rundown little three-bedroom hovel.

Field of dreams Because the school superintendent's son wanted to play football so badly, he managed to sell the idea to the board. That's a helluva lot of money for a game, but the town's residents, especially those from the Caribbean and the South Pacific, are delighted. They have somewhere decent to play pickup soccer. And the score is... Another oddity here caused by Earth's sharp curvature so far north is the direction of the many large satellite dishes. They're all virtually horizontal as most satellites orbit the equator and the dishes now point along the plane and no longer have to point vertically up in the air. Horizontal satellite trackers The curvature is so sharp and the horizons so close that the last time the sun rose and set was over two weeks ago on May 11, when it rose at 2.54 A.M. and set the following day at 1.53 A.M. Now it's full daylight 24 hours a day, no sunrise, no sunset, just the golden orb going round the heavens. It won't set again until 2.10 A.M. on August 2, rising again 48 minutes later at 2.58 A.M.

But by November 18 it'll rise for the last time this year at 12.34 P.M., set an hour and 15 minutes later at 1.49 P.M., and then stay down until January 23, when it'll rise once more at 1.10 P.M., only to pop back down again 58 minutes later at 2.08 P.M. Point Barrow, some nine miles northeast of Barrow, is the northernmost point of the U.S. and arguably the reason why many tourists, of whom there are several thousand a year, come here. It's a dirty grey-brownish strand of gravel poking out into the frozen depths of the Arctic Ocean. Point Barrow spit On the left is the Chukchi Sea, on the right the Beaufort Sea - and straight ahead, if you're lucky, a polar bear, lucky that is if you're in Mike Shults' van. Unlucky if it thinks you're food and you're on foot.

Dividing the seas Today there are no polar bears on the horizon, but Mike, an implant from Seattle and an excellent guide who has been here 41 years, has promised to phone me if he hears of one wandering around and to drive me out to see it free of charge. He's decorated his house with 'Arctic palm trees,' poles with bits of whale baleen fixed on top like fronds. Arctic palms Meanwhile I'm wandering around town dodging ATVs and awaiting the Call of the Wild - Mike's sighting of Mr. or Mrs. Polar Bear. There's a big tent-like building for ice hockey and curling, there's Arctic Pizza owned by Koreans, there's petrol at $7 a gallon, ironical in an oil region but it has to go south to be refined. Arctic palms near Point Barrow And there's the Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial, the two gents after whom the airport is also named. Rogers, the legendary part-Cherokee cowboy, performer, social commentator, film actor and wit, and Post, the first solo pilot to fly around the world, died when their plane crashed into a lagoon at Point Barrow in 1935.

Will Rogers memorial Meanwhile, it's gone 9 P.M. and I've heard no further word from Mike or the polar bears. Says it all P.S. Now midnight, nice and bright, not a Mike nor a polar bear in sight. [Upcoming blog on Thursday: Alaska's scenic Homer and the amazing sea otters] Only polar bear I see is on bridge joining two parts of Barrow Close-up ______________ By the same author: Bussing The Amazon: On The Road With The Accidental Journalist, available with free excerpts on Kindle and in print version on Amazon . Swimming With Fidel: The Toils Of An Accidental Journalist, available on Kindle, with free excerpts here , and in print version on Amazon in the U.S here . More: Northernmost City in America - Barrow, Alaska - YouTube Northernmost City in America - Barrow, Alaska Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Sep 1, 2015 Barrow is a small village on Alaska's Arctic coast. It is the northernmost community in the United States, and nearby Point Barrow is the country's northernmost point. The town has a small city center, home to businesses, schools, government offices and the Wiley Post-Will Rogers Airport. Browerville is the city's residential area. What was once home to the Naval Arctic Research Lab is now Ilisagvik College, the only tribally controlled community college in Alaska. About 60% of the population is Native American, primarily Inupiat, and Inupiat traditions remain widely practiced. Tourists can get a taste of those traditions at the Inupiat Heritage Center. It is cold - temperatures climb above freezing only 120 days a year. So although there's plenty of coastline, you're not likely to hit the beach while in Barrow. The North Slope Borough is a bit misnamed around Barrow. The landscape there is flat and desolate, isolating the city from other towns in Alaska. Although Barrow doesn't look historic, it's actually one of the oldest settlements in the United States.

Archaeologica evidence suggests that Inupiat from the Birnirk Culture lived in the area as much as 1500 years ago.

The Photos (in order) A92A0184 - Once an old whaling station, this is the Oldest frame building in Barrow; beyond it is the whalebone "friendship arch", a popular photo stop for visiting tourists A92A0179 - A polar bear skin dries on someone's rooftop A92A0186 - According to our guide, this is an archaeological site that once featured pit houses; I assume that it's tied to the Birnirk culture, but don't remember the details from that long-ago visit A92A0178 - View of the Arctic Ocean from Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the United States A92A0180 - Barrow sits atop about a permafrost layer that's more than 1000 feet deep; it provides convenient year-round cold storage, although it can also make the ground unstable for road and building construction, especially as the Arctic experiences warmer temperatures A92A0151 - The Top of the World Bridge; many sites note that they are the northernmost site of their kind in the country A92A0154 - This is the Point Barrow Long Range

 Radar Site, part of the Distant Early Warning Line established in 1954 and now part of the North Warning System; you'll see the world's northernmost totem pole here, too A92A0205 - American humorist Will Rogers and famed aviator Wiley Post died in a plane crash just outside Barrow in August 1935; this memorial pays tribute to both men, and Barrow's airport is named after them Category America's most northernmost point.

Point Barrow Barrow, Alaska. THE LONGEST LIST OF THE LONGEST STUFF AT THE LONGEST DOMAIN NAME AT LONG LAST What is the northernmost point in the America? The northernmost point in America is Point Barrow, Alaska which sits at a latitude of 71ï¿½23'N. Not far away from Point Barrow is the town of Barrow with a latitude of 71ï¿½18′1″N, making it the northernmost town in America. Northwest Angle, Minnesota at 49ï¿½23' 4.1"N is the northernmost in the 48 contiguous states as well as the northernmost town.

Question: Point Barrow is the most northerly point of which country?
Answer: U.S.A